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The term water deficits generally describes the major aspects our world's water crisis and the overall scarcity of usable water and water pollution. Today there are 1.1 billion people without adequate drinking water worldwide, a direct result of contamination through pollution and human waste, deforestation, improper irrigation systems, industrial growth, changing climate patterns, and over population. Water deficits entail the reducing supplies of underground aqueducts that are currently and will continue to strife our world with hardship.
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